Culture

" Culture is a system of
behaviors and beliefs. These
belief systems make some
things more permissible
under certain circumstances
but nearly prohibited in
others. These cultural
patterns may vary from
country to country and even
from area to area. What may
be normal or acceptable in
one part of the world may be
frowned upon in another."

Ruth Johnson Colvin, I Speak English (Syracuse, New York: New Readers Press, 1997), p.15.